Associations between accelerometer-measured physical activity, sedentary behaviour and pericardial adiposity: a prospective cohort study of UK Biobank participants
Wanru Yang, Zhang Chen, Simin Li, Bingshu E Chen, Xinzhi Li · 2026
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Wanru Yang and four co-authors link daily movement to fat around the heart in a large UK Biobank study. Their twenty twenty-six prospective cohort deals with pericardial fat, which hugs the heart and tracks heart disease risk. Activity is known to curb belly fat, but its tie to this depot was untested at scale.
Over sixteen thousand participants wore wrist accelerometers and had heart scans. More activity at every intensity, light, moderate, or vigorous, came with less fat around the heart. The most active quarter had about a fifth less of this fat than the least active. Long sitting time ran the other way, with more fat. Models adjusted for many health factors.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Wanru Yang, Zhang Chen, Simin Li, Bingshu E Chen, Xinzhi Li |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 49 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |